Cecil O. Samuelson (Cecil Osborn Samuelson Jr.) Quotes

Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.

Cecil O. Samuelson

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

  

  Wale
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• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
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• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

  Ram Kapoor
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• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
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• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
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• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Hope
  • Day
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• I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
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• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
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• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
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• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Writing
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• I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Home
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• Art is a guaranty of sanity.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
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• I'm kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Different
  • Style
  • Beach

• Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Long
  • Business
  • Car

• The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

  

  George Matthew Adams
  • World
  • Happy
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• Miracles will have their claimersMore will bow to RomeHe and she are in the houseBut there's only me at home. - Anagram (For Mongo) (1989)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Home
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• God preaches, a noted Clergyman -And the sermon is never long,So instead of getting to Heaven, at last-I’m going, all along.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Long
  • Heaven

• Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • Sexy
  • Handsome

• Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.

  

  Cecil O. Samuelson
  • Long
  • Father
  • Perfect